Laos

Program

DDD’s approach is unique in that it incorporates a comprehensive program of employment and higher education to support high school graduates without the means of pursuing a college degree in realizing their dreams.

PenPal Schools provides six-week courses on global issues and connects its students with a partner from around the world to help them understand others' cultures, ideas, and perspectives on these topics.

Research and Evidence

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Digital Divide Data collected personal essays from some of its program graduates in Laos, Cambodia, and Kenya and compiled them in this ebook. The stories from program beneficiaries humanize DDD's skills-for-work campaign. Read about Isaac, raised in one of the world's largest slums in Kenya, acquiring the computer skills he needed for his current job as a Data Manager.

The Global Parternship for Education's Open Data Initiative has gathered over 11,000 data points from over 29 countries to build its monitoring and eevaluation strategy. The datasets compare education targets to actual results in each GPE developing country partner to help countries assess their progress, develop evidence-based programs to address children's educations, and access aggregate joint sectore review documents, grant applications, and key outcome visualizations.

The current report examines the related issues of child labour and youth employment in Laos. Guided by observed outcomes interms of schooling, work activities and status in the labour market, the report considers the economic as well as the social determinants of child labour and youth employment difficulties.